Solr 1.3 final was released today, congratulations to the development team!

This release ships with a lot of new features:

• Distributed search capabilities
• Supporting multiple indexes in one deployment (this means also multiple languages in one deployment)
• Chained search components (More Like This, Spell Checking, etc.)
• The new DataImportHandler to import easily from Database to Solr

Solr 1.3 also comes with an updated Lucene version 2.3 which means significantly faster indexing performance.

I was already playing around with the release candidate and started writing some reviews, my first review on how to handle multiple indexes in one deployment is following soon here!

By the way, Solr is still missing a new logo: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LogoContest

I just stumbled upon a mail on the solr mailing list from Grant Ingersoll writing that Solr 1.3 could by released already this week!

Barring anything major, it should be out this week or early next.  We’ve published one Release Candidate so far, and another one will be available today.  I have been announcing this on solr-dev, but have held back on making a broad announcement just yet.

-Grant